Do Neural Retrievers Prefer Certain Documents? Evidence of Learned Relevance Priors

arXiv:2606.02814v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural retrievers are trained to estimate query-document relevance from annotated query-document pairs. Yet annotation protocols may not purely reflect relevance: they select only a subset of documents for labeling, and this selection can favor certain document types over others. We investigate...

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